This article leads you to believe that someone could get your credit card by scanning your trash for rfid tags. This is not possible. All they could get is some sort of identifier (user102938844903) bought a certain pair of shoes, etc. If some sales analyst wants to look in my trash can, go ahead. I'm not concerned with that. In fact, most of us do the same with Google every time we search. We have a cookie on our computer that uniquely identifies us. That's why the ads are targeted better to us. In fact, this is a positive, not something to be scared of. As long as they don't give away my email address or contact info I'm fine with it.
Exactly right. If the author's premise is correct, then anything that improves competition (in this case in the legal arena), but does not create something of beauty, is useless. This is redicoulas. One benefit of this product is lower legal costs. Since it increases the pool of lawyers with knowledge about particular judges on particular cases, it creates more competition and lower prices. Then all those dollars that are saved on legal expenses can be used for more obviously useful things (even stuff this guy might think is useful).
Anything that can execute any core dll's can already do anything that any user could do on a system anyways, so you don't need to worry about the dlls.
Ok, they didn't have the trade mark registered, they didn't have the domain name registered, and now they want 25 mil - 35 mil? What's to stop anyone from saying they had this idea 10 years ago about
Mr. Raymond, I'd ask you has your carreer benefited at all from Microsoft? If you answer this question honestly, you'll say yes. I DID do some research on you and I see that a number of your articles were published in PC Magazine. Now, would PC magazine be around if it wasn't for Microsoft? I don't think so, at least not in the same form. Now, I'm a Linux user and I'm not a Microsoft flag waver or anything like that, but your email is completely and uterly discusting to me. The fact that you assumed that this was a job offer shows a huge amount of arrogance on your part, but to respond to anyone offering you a job in that manner shows exactly who you are.
The viruses attack ports on Windows XP, since your hub or switch is presumably not running Windows XP, you the virus will not be able to take control of your hub. It's sort of like a hardware based firewall.
In a small company I agree, you can definitly keep track of who is doing what on the network and knowing who brought the virus in. But when you work at a company with more than 30,000 employees that can be difficult. I think the lesson is: go through a hub/switch before plugging into any network.
The latest viruses are getting pretty creepy. On the public network where I work, we recently plugged a Windows XP laptop in that had just been installed without anti-virus. There are apparently so many viruses going around on our network that within 10 minutes, the computer had 12 viruses that were picked up just through viruses that connect in remotely through ports that have not been "firewalled". This explains why I use Solaris or Linux for my desktop system.
This is probably a stupid question, but why would lots of small individual clients want to crack encryption keys? (Other than stealing credit card info, etc?)
I've tried Skype on broadband. It's very good. The quality is actually better than telephone. With this and cell phones, I don't see why everyone pays the monthly telephone bill. I guess that and paying the newspaper subscription bill are kind of just stupid things people do.
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This article leads you to believe that someone could get your credit card by scanning your trash for rfid tags. This is not possible. All they could get is some sort of identifier (user102938844903) bought a certain pair of shoes, etc. If some sales analyst wants to look in my trash can, go ahead. I'm not concerned with that. In fact, most of us do the same with Google every time we search. We have a cookie on our computer that uniquely identifies us. That's why the ads are targeted better to us. In fact, this is a positive, not something to be scared of. As long as they don't give away my email address or contact info I'm fine with it.
Exactly right. If the author's premise is correct, then anything that improves competition (in this case in the legal arena), but does not create something of beauty, is useless. This is redicoulas. One benefit of this product is lower legal costs. Since it increases the pool of lawyers with knowledge about particular judges on particular cases, it creates more competition and lower prices. Then all those dollars that are saved on legal expenses can be used for more obviously useful things (even stuff this guy might think is useful).
Anything that can execute any core dll's can already do anything that any user could do on a system anyways, so you don't need to worry about the dlls.
Ok, they didn't have the trade mark registered, they didn't have the domain name registered, and now they want 25 mil - 35 mil? What's to stop anyone from saying they had this idea 10 years ago about
This stuff is NOT music. Maybe the chatbots would like listening to this stuff, but I don't think it's ready for human consumption! LOL
Mr. Raymond, I'd ask you has your carreer benefited at all from Microsoft? If you answer this question honestly, you'll say yes. I DID do some research on you and I see that a number of your articles were published in PC Magazine. Now, would PC magazine be around if it wasn't for Microsoft? I don't think so, at least not in the same form. Now, I'm a Linux user and I'm not a Microsoft flag waver or anything like that, but your email is completely and uterly discusting to me. The fact that you assumed that this was a job offer shows a huge amount of arrogance on your part, but to respond to anyone offering you a job in that manner shows exactly who you are.
The viruses attack ports on Windows XP, since your hub or switch is presumably not running Windows XP, you the virus will not be able to take control of your hub. It's sort of like a hardware based firewall.
In a small company I agree, you can definitly keep track of who is doing what on the network and knowing who brought the virus in. But when you work at a company with more than 30,000 employees that can be difficult. I think the lesson is: go through a hub/switch before plugging into any network.
The latest viruses are getting pretty creepy. On the public network where I work, we recently plugged a Windows XP laptop in that had just been installed without anti-virus. There are apparently so many viruses going around on our network that within 10 minutes, the computer had 12 viruses that were picked up just through viruses that connect in remotely through ports that have not been "firewalled". This explains why I use Solaris or Linux for my desktop system.
This is probably a stupid question, but why would lots of small individual clients want to crack encryption keys? (Other than stealing credit card info, etc?)
I'm getting me one of them 2 Tb HD with a 6.8 gHz chip and 64 gB of RAM Atom Computers laptops that was posted yesterday!
I've heard this company's next product will be the black monitor. For an extra $99 you can upgrade to the all black flat panel.
I've tried Skype on broadband. It's very good. The quality is actually better than telephone. With this and cell phones, I don't see why everyone pays the monthly telephone bill. I guess that and paying the newspaper subscription bill are kind of just stupid things people do.